The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-10-18
SMALLER AND SMALLER,
Grow the Indications of the Guilt OF
Stain.
Evidence that Both the Prisoners
Were Somewhere Else.
Photographs Which May be of Aid
to the Prosecution.

II am glad" said a gentleman from Win
throp VINO met PRESS reporter yesterday,
Ito see your paper showing up just what
sort of liar this Stain is who has been inn
posing on the people of Maine with his cock
and-bull story of hauling bank robbers
through Maine. think that yarn of his
about the robbery of our bank is about as
bad as the one about the Dexter Bank. The
young man worked in Winthrop a few weeks
and, from what he then heard of the affair,
| have no doubt he has concocted this story
If he ever has been in Waterville l have no
doubt he will come out with story of the
attempt on the bank there, when the robbers
bound, gagged and hid the night watchman
OF that town so effectually that he was not
found until the next day.
The young man says that at Winthrop,
after the first explosion, the old man Stain
conceived the brilliant idea of going out
into the street with Oliver Cromwell and the
rest of the gang and shouting like drunken
men. This is pure fabrication. The first
explosion was heard, but the only man who
suspected anything wrong about the bank
was too scared to give the ALARM No dozen
was thrust out Young Stain again says
that the alarm being given, posse of citizens
divided and guarded the bridge at Lake Ma
Tanocook.' There is no such bridge near
winthrop. There is a railroad bridge over
the Lake three miles away, but no one ever
thought OF guarding it, as it would have been
OF no use. Young Stain says he drove his
father and Cromwell across the country
to Augusta As a matter of fact the
team OF the bank robbers was seen
to go in exactly the opposite direction
by citizen of Winthrop who followed it for
some distance: Young Stain says the rob-
bers thrust the money and bonds into
,thelr, pockets As a matter Of fact they
bundled them into water pail which be-
wards found out in the Old Wayne road.
Stain says, ION the front stoop of the bank
was 500 bill torn in two and one half miss
ing" As matter of fact the explosion:blew
out the front windows of the bank, and the
street was Uttered with fragments of bills
and papers. The Cashier of the bank now
has collection of these mutiated bills.
towards Readfeld were three bank bills,
which had been burned and mutilated by the
explosion. and LETT in such way as to lead
the officers to think the burglars had escaped
to Readfeld.' In reality the bank notes
were found on the Old Wayne road, which
does not go anywhere near Readfeld. On
this same road, also, was found the water
pail, and later in stone wall kit of bur
glars tools. Stain talks of driving the bur-
glars to Augusta and then keeping on" to
Lewiston. This is as if one should drive
from Portland to Saco and then keep on"
to Brunswick. This discrepancy, however,
may arise from loose use of the words
keep on. You have noticed that Stain Of
ten uses words loosely, for instance, when he
used wagon" for sleigh, and 'Daily Tele-
gram for no one knows what.
:, Yes, That young Stain is phenomenal
liar, at least so far as our bank robbery is
concerned"